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Sunday, August 30, 2015

V.6.1. REMAKING THE CITY

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OBSERVING ITS CHANGES SHOWED THE PRIORITY OF REPRESSING REVOLT, AFTER THE INSURRECTION OF "BARBARIANS" IN JUNE


Claude Abron
An esplanade built to assemble troops.

Observing the transformation 
shows the military priority. 

  • "An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park
  • Open the town to the army
  • Huge central spaces to assemble troops
  • A fountain where the Emperor crushes Socialism
  • The new arteries' military purpose
    • A "masterly line" cuts through the working-class east
      • The grand voids of the blue-collar east
      • A similar site reveals the uprising's extent
      • A void whose core is empty confirms the giant spaces' tie to power
        • At Notre-Dame Cathedral, repression replaces eternity
        • Planning Latin Quarter bombardment has happy results
        • The hospital garden 
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        "An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park




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        • 0. Ignored gaps reveal another past (1)
        • 0.1. How these views began (1)
        • 0.2. Thanks! (1)
        • 0.3. Details (1)
        • 0.4. Contents (1)
        • 1. WHAT MAKES FRANCE DISTINCT? (1)
        • 1.1. Setting the scene (1)
        • 1.2. Players: legendary or unsung (1)
        • 1.2.1. Kings at heart of French civ. (1)
        • 1.2.2. Court women's gift of refinement (1)
        • 1.2.3. Church monarchy's partner (1)
        • 1.2.4. Small farms' impact (1)
        • 1.2.5. Rebels demand social justice (1)
        • 1.2.6. Exiles & expats (1)
        • 1.2.7. French language: an explosive gift (1)
        • 1.2.8. Immigrant energies (1)
        • 2. AN UNSUSPECTED CITY (1)
        • 2.1. The logic of the legendary core (1)
        • 2.1.1. A spectral rampart (4)
        • 2.1.2. Saint-Germain: rampart heir (10)
        • 2.1.3. LORDS STEP OUT OF SHADOW (8)
        • 2.1.4. Back to the rampart On to the river (5)
        • 2.1.5. Palaces: glory & demise (10)
        • 2.1.6. Palais-Royal now (7)
        • 2.2. BRANDS TAKE OVER CENTER (1)
        • 2.2.1. Ads hover over the river (1)
        • 2.2.2. Left-bank oasis & recent past (7)
        • 2.2.3. Willfully erasing the past (5)
        • 2.2.4. Skip the grotesque profits (8)
        • 2.3. TRDE RTE FR PILGRMS & KINGS (1)
        • 2.3.1. The street of royal power (10)
        • 2.3.2. Medieval spirits linger (10)
        • 2.3.3. Transforming rebel neighborhoods (1)
        • 2.3.4. Crime. Nobles. Garment district (6)
        • 2.3.5. Louis's arc looms over the route (1)
        • 2.3.6. Toward the horizon (6)
        • 2.3.7. Immigrants energize tradition (3)
        • 2.4. To do with children (or without them) (1)
        • 2.4.1. If you come with little boys (1)
        • 2.4.2. Street art & game for kids (4)
        • 2.4.3. A mini-wood where children play (1)
        • 2.4.4. New horizons (1)
        • 2.4.5. Introduction to the Louvre (7)
        • 2.5. NOBLES GODS AND HEROES (1)
        • 2.5.1. The primacy of hereditary rank (1)
        • 2.5.2. Everything aids the overclass (1)
        • 2.5.3. Allegory: nobles vs. new captalists (4)
        • 2.5.4. The Church omits pagan decor... (1)
        • 2.5.5. Detour - anecdotes or economy? (1)
        • 2.6. The gods' modernity (1)
        • 2.6.1. First great work of defiance (1)
        • 2.6.2. Goddess a plebeian revolutionary (1)
        • 2.6.3. The goddess's descendants (1)
        • 2.7. WHAT OPERA TOURS WON'T SAY (1)
        • 2.7.1. A palace for a new elite (4)
        • 2.7.2. Backers sex & money (6)
        • 2.7.3. Blackout? (5)
        • 2.8. From nymphs to Nazis (1)
        • 2.8.1. Place Vendôme & the Occupation (1)
        • 2.8.2. Why Paris didn't burn (1)
        • 3. VITALITY ON OTHER SIDE TRACKS (1)
        • 3.1. Europe's "Chinatown" (1)
        • 3.1.1. A walk where cultures mix (4)
        • 3.1.2. Colors of streets & shops (4)
        • 3.1.3. High-rises built too soon (5)
        • 3.1.4. Panel that skips what counts (1)
        • 3.1.5. Beyond the towers (5)
        • 3.1.6. Some of the restaurants (5)
        • 3.1.7. Asians emerge from shadows (5)
        • 3.2. The east: New worlds emerge (1)
        • 3.2.1. Memories of insurrection (5)
        • 3.2.2. Streets where art springs up (5)
        • 3.3. A path through "real Paris" (1)
        • 3.4. BARBÈS DON'T PANIC (1)
        • 3.4.1. Back to the wine tax (1)
        • 3.4.2. A dark forgotten past (1)
        • 3.4.3. A métro station & a movie theater (1)
        • 3.4.4. Toward La Goutte d'Or (1)
        • 3.4.5. The media (1)
        • 3.4.6. (Not very) threatening youth (1)
        • 3.4.7. Take another look (1)
        • 3.5. ENERGY OF LA GOUTTE D'OR (1)
        • 3.5.1. A setting of "Gauls" (8)
        • 3.5.2. Art known mainly to neighbors (7)
        • 3.5.3. First steps in another land (8)
        • 3.5.4. "Looks." an amiable art (11)
        • 3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors (8)
        • 3.5.6. A couturier for Kenzo &... (5)
        • 3.5.7. Gentrification with brakes (6)
        • 3.5.8. "Emerging design hub of Paris" (7)
        • 3.5.9. Africans' buoyant creativity (5)
        • 3.5.9.x. Suddenly visible Blacks (8)
        • 3.5.9.xx Tomorrow's destination? (9)
        • 3.5.9.xxx A plce Gtrd. Stein wd hv liked... (4)
        • 4. WHY IS THE CITY SO GRAND? (1)
        • 4.1. Majesty on a human scale (1)
        • 4.1.1. A parade route changes course (10)
        • 4.1.2. The milestones' meanings (7)
        • 4.1.3. Design inconceivable elsewhere (7)
        • 4.1.4. The royal imprint blossoms (5)
        • 4.2. The curtain falls (1)
        • 4.2.1. The queen breaks rules (1)
        • 4.2.2. "Let them eat cake" (1)
        • 4.2.3. The spirit of the royal court (1)
        • 4.2.4. A bubblehead rises to occasion (1)
        • 4.2.5. A greeting announces calamity (1)
        • 4.2.6. Yellow liveries & other puzzles (1)
        • 4.2.7. End of 1500-year old monarchy (1)
        • 4.2.8. Prison that cd have been worse (1)
        • 4.2.9. "I have no tears left to cry" (1)
        • 4.2.9.x.The queen attains grandeur (1)
        • 4.2.9.xx. Louis XVII. Story with no end (1)
        • 4.2.9.xxx. Obelisk announces new era (1)
        • 4.2.9.xxxx. How Frnce becme a republic (1)
        • 4.2.9.xxxxx. Frnch Prsidnts heirs of kngs (1)
        • 4.3. A modern royal city (1)
        • 4.3.1. The Grand Axis as model (1)
        • 4.3.2. Perspectives & city's grandeur (1)
        • 4.3.3. "Places" stay royal (1)
        • 4.3.4. Detour: Victors on horseback (1)
        • 4.3.5. Detour: heroes on white horses (1)
        • 4.4. HVE KNGS BECME SUBVERSVE? (1)
        • 4.4.1. Challenged majesty (1)
        • 4.4.2. A new society creeps in (1)
        • 4.4.3. Goddesses loom over the city (1)
        • 4.4.4. Kings & globalisation (1)
        • 5. CRADLE OF UPHEAVAL (1)
        • 5.1. History: which facts? (1)
        • 5.1.1. "Liberty Equality Fraternity"... (1)
        • 5.1.2. 1830: capitalists' neglectd triumph (1)
        • 5.1.3. Effect of useless history (1)
        • 5.2. 1830: The people fooled (1)
        • 5.2.1. Class goals diverge (1)
        • 5.2.2. Faceless poor & bourgeois heroes (1)
        • 5.2.3. More on bourgeois heros (1)
        • 5.2.4. Freedom's ambiguous painting (1)
        • 5.2.5. A lame homage to the plebes (1)
        • 5.2.6. The July Column: as evasive (1)
        • 5.2.7. Victor Hugo's "Time of riots" (1)
        • 5.2.8. An intelligent ogre checks in (1)
        • 5.2.9. Algeria enters France's story (1)
        • 5.3. 1848: fooled again (1)
        • 5.3.1. Insurrection by accident (1)
        • 5.3.2. 1848: Schism looms (1)
        • 5.3.3. Popular discipline terrifies (1)
        • 5.3.4. The upheaval overwhelms Europe (1)
        • 5.3.5. Feudal rulers emerge still stronger (1)
        • 5.4. FIRST WORKER INSURRECTION (1)
        • 5.4.1. A republic for the happy few (1)
        • 5.4.2. Workers' revolt announces future (1)
        • 5.4.3. Provincial nobles answer call (1)
        • 5.4.4. Young delinquents join in (1)
        • 5.4.5. Empathy from a countess alone (1)
        • 5.4.6. An authoritarian comes to power (1)
        • 5.5. Historical museum & insurrections (1)
        • 5.5.1. Spectacular homage to elites (1)
        • 5.5.2. Fr Revolution almost peaceful (1)
        • 5.5.3. Revolts as shown before renovtion (1)
        • 5.5.4. 1830: showing capitalism's win (1)
        • 5.5.5. Fev.1848: fighting almost deleted (1)
        • 5.5.6. June 1848 gets two sentences... (1)
        • 5.5.7. Barricades become game for kids (1)
        • 5.6. FEAR & URBAN GRANDEUR (1)
        • 5.6.1. Remaking the city (12)
        • 5.6.2. Gifts of the plan to repress (5)
        • 6. LA COMMUNE (1)
        • 6.1. Egalitarianism breaks through (1)
        • 6.2. "The Terrible Year" (1)
        • 6.2.1. A war of choice brings disaster (10)
        • 6.2.2. Explosion (8)
        • 6.2.3. Civil war & carnage (11)
        • 6.2.4. Ruins. Revenge. Evolution. (10)
        • 6.3. Mystification (1)
        • 6.3.1. The victors' view (6)
        • 6.3.2. That view returns (7)
        • 6.3.3. Two historians fight back (2)
        • 6.4. Fraternity that worked (1)
        • 6.4.1. Pariahs take charge of their lives (1)
        • 6.4.2. Leaders we wish we had (1)
        • 6.4.3. Victories of La Commune (1)
        • 6.4.4. A rooted memory (1)
        • 6.4.5. "Friends of the Paris Commune" (1)
        • 6.5. An omen and a turning point (1)
        • 6.5.1. A foretaste of genocide (1)
        • 6.5.2. Toward the 20th century (1)
        • 7. A COMMUNARD BASTION (1)
        • 7.1. The fight for the hilltop (1)
        • 7.1.1. Frenzied combat (1)
        • 7.1.2. Communard fighters (1)
        • 7.1.3. Conflictng signs/ Communrd spirt (1)
        • 7.1.4. A panel mentions La Commune... (1)
        • 7.2. An epicenter of misery (1)
        • 7.2.1. Vanished industry (1)
        • 7.2.2. Disease. Crime. Revolt (1)
        • 7.3. Third-world rev. training ground (1)
        • 7.4. An outskirt that used to be chilling (1)
        • 8. A PAST FORGOTTN YET INDELIBLE (1)
        • 8.1. In the footsteps of "demons" (1)
        • 8.1.1 .Passage by which survivors fled (1)
        • 8.1.2. City-run residences (1)
        • 8.1.3. Accessible leadership (1)
        • 8.1.4. Sculptures. Bikes. Gyms. Gardens (1)
        • 8.1.5. More services. More gardens... (1)
        • 8.1.6. Electn posters in a real democracy (1)
        • 8.2. Shops Communards wd hv valued (1)
        • 8.3. LOST INDUSTRY'S TRACES (1)
        • 8.3.1. Gardens replace a sugar refinery (1)
        • 8.3.2. A giant park on a gas-making site (1)
        • 8.3.3. Posters on park railings (1)
        • 8.3.4. Greening (1)
        • 8.4. Innovative arts flourish (1)
        • 8.4.1. Bleak walls. Huge murals (1)
        • 8.4.2. Messages (1)
        • 8.4.3. More arts from City Hall (1)
        • 8.4.4. Arts discovered by chance (1)
        • 8.5. A district that leans left (1)
        • 8.5.1. A Social-Democratic city (1)
        • 8.5.2. Posters & signs (1)
        • 8.5.3. The May Day parade begins (1)
        • 8.6. The city's newest festival (1)
        • 8.6.1. A banquet under the aerial métro (1)
        • 8.6.2. Asians launch the fête (1)
        • 8.6.3. The arts through new techniques (1)
        • 8.6.4. Silent movies in the park (1)
        • 8.6.5. Ethnic dancers (1)
        • 8.6.6. Drums. Dance. Music. Juggling (1)
        • 8.6.7. Grand Finale (1)
        • 8.7. More gifts from City Hall (1)
        • 8.8. A place to pitch your tent? (1)
        • 8.9. WHAT HAPPENED: THE WAR DID (1)
        • 8.9.1. "Better Hitler than Blum"... (1)
        • 8.9.2. Conservatives & the Resistance (1)
        • 9. FUTURE SPRNGS UP FRM BEHND (1)
        • 9x. EPILOGUES (1)
        • 9xx "Don't you have an agenda?" (1)
        • 9xxx "Yr teachng Comunsm to th police!" (1)
        • 9xxxx "Yr misld bt nt bought. Join us!" (1)
        • x. INDEX (1)
        • x.i. Importance of the economic base (1)
        • x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
        • x.iii. Dramas show how things work (1)
        • x.iv. Notice anomalies & details (1)
        • x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
        • x.v. Visits based on observation (1)
        • x.vi. Mythology & nbles' claim of primacy (1)
        • x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
        • x.viii. Recommendations (1)

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            • 5.6. FEAR, UNLIKELY PROMOTER OF URBAN GRANDEUR
            • V.6.1. REMAKING THE CITY
            • "AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION:" CHURCHES AND A PARK
            • OPEN THE TOWN TO THE ARMY
            • HUGE CENTRAL SPACES TO ASSEMBLE TROOPS
            • A FOUNTAIN WHERE THE EMPEROR CRUSHES SOCIALISM
            • THE NEW ARTERIES' MILITARY PURPOSE
            • A "MASTERLY LINE" CUTS THROUGH THE WORKING-CLASS EAST
            • A SIMILAR SITE SHOWS HOW FAR THE UPRISING SPREAD
            • THE GRAND VOIDS OF THE BLUE-COLLAR EAST
            • A VOID CONFIRMS THE GIANT SPACES' TIE TO MONARCHY
            • NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL, FROM ETERNITY TO REPRESSION ...
            • PLANNING LATIN QUARTER BOMBARDMENT HAS HAPPY RESULTS
            • V.6.2. GIFTS OF THE PLAN TO REPRESS
            • ADAPTING ROYAL MAJESTY
            • BEAUTY WHOSE BRUTAL ORIGIN HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN
            • PROGRESSIVES HIJACK STREETS AND SPACES
            • A MARKET REPLACES AN ARMY
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